Crossword clues for batteries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Battery \Bat"ter*y\, n.; pl. Batteries. [F. batterie, fr. battre. See Batter, v. t.]
The act of battering or beating.
(Law) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.
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(Mil.)
Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
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A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
Barbette battery. See Barbette.
Battery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work.
Battery en ['e]charpe, one that plays obliquely.
Battery gun, a gun capable of firing a number of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load.
Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery.
In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing.
Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy.
Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.
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(Elec.)
A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
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An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
Note: In the trough battery, copper and zinc plates, connected in pairs, divide the trough into cells, which are filled with an acid or oxidizing liquid; the effect is exhibited when wires connected with the two end-plates are brought together. In Daniell's battery, the metals are zinc and copper, the former in dilute sulphuric acid, or a solution of sulphate of zinc, the latter in a saturated solution of sulphate of copper. A modification of this is the common gravity battery, so called from the automatic action of the two fluids, which are separated by their specific gravities. In Grove's battery, platinum is the metal used with zinc; two fluids are used, one of them in a porous cell surrounded by the other. In Bunsen's or the carbon battery, the carbon of gas coke is substituted for the platinum of Grove's. In Leclanch['e]'s battery, the elements are zinc in a solution of ammonium chloride, and gas carbon surrounded with manganese dioxide in a porous cell. A secondary battery is a battery which usually has the two plates of the same kind, generally of lead, in dilute sulphuric acid, and which, when traversed by an electric current, becomes charged, and is then capable of giving a current of itself for a time, owing to chemical changes produced by the charging current. A storage battery is a kind of secondary battery used for accumulating and storing the energy of electrical charges or currents, usually by means of chemical work done by them; an accumulator.
A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
(Metallurgy) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
--Knight.The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
(Baseball) The pitcher and catcher together.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of battery English)
Usage examples of "batteries".
He was irritated that the Welcome's commanding officer had not been able to tell him the precise position of the shore batteries, and he knew that at this very moment Frenchmen would be watching the Juno with telescopes, noting and reporting to Fort Royal that the brig had gone off to the north and a frigate had taken her place.
The batteries would be somewhere in the lee of Fort St Louis, which was built on a spit of land poking out southwards like a thumb.
There would be other batteries, but the guns of Fort St Louis would be the most dangerous.
But you'll all learn about firing at batteries when you have to tackle one on top of a cliff and firing down at you.
Aitken reported wryly that he had heard much among the men about how they could have knocked out the other batteries, and that the Captain was probably leaving them for the time being, intending to tackle one a week to keep the guns' crews in practice.
We'll just see if they have any more batteries at this end of the Bay.
He might as well start a draft of a report to Admiral Davis, reporting that the Surcouf was ready and three batteries had been established.
The Surcouf prepared for sea, the guns for the Marchesa, Juno and Ramage batteries installed on the Diamond Rock, with three months' provisions landed for the men, plus water and sheep.
And the Diamond batteries, of course, with all the advantage of surprise that they would have.
And the batteries on the Diamond represented his most powerful surprise.
Was he overestimating the effectiveness of the Juno and Ramage batteries against French ships trying to pass?
Firing from sea level meant that a shot falling short of the target would ricochet onwards and might hit, but a roundshot curving down from the height of those two batteries could ricochet in almost any direction.
It was a mile wide and French ships passing through it would be within range of the two batteries for a distance of perhaps a mile and a half.
This was his squadron: a former privateer schooner, a captured French frigate and the Juno frigate, with the Diamond batteries watching over them all.
With them all concentrated and confused, roundshot would start plunging down on them unexpectedly from the Diamond batteries.